Category: Commentary

Opinion

Deseret Op-Ed Asks Wrong Question About Wild Horses

The article begins with a faulty assumption.

The title should say “How should Utah fix the mismanagement of resources in the lawful homes of wild horses and burros?” not “How should Utah rein in the wild horse and burro problem?”

The writer noted that wild horse and burro numbers in the state far exceed appropriate management levels and that animals are straying outside of federal management areas.

So what?  AMLs don’t indicate carrying capacities.

Those sounding the alarm are usually involved with animal agriculture.

Putting more wild horses in private sanctuaries, identified as a possible solution, is exactly what they want.

If a proposed facility doesn’t include public lands and doesn’t displace livestock therefrom, it’s not worthy of your support.

PZP Doesn’t Kill Wild Horses, It Kills Wild Herds

Those who sound the alarm about wild horses and burros are often among their worst enemies.

Take for example the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in humane disposal and faithful servant of the bureaucrats and ranchers.

Who’s the greater threat to wild horses, a President whose budget will be tempered by Congress or a nonprofit that’s wiping out herds with mass sterilization?

Is Stupidity a Problem in the Wild Horse World?

Do these people not understand that the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal and servant of the public-lands ranchers, is sterilizing the Virginia Range mares with PZP, a restricted-use pesticide that tricks the immune system into attacking their ovaries?

How stupid do you have to be to support an organization like that?

File under: Charlatans.

Who Would Want to Be Responsible for Salt River Herd?

Imagine submitting a proposal to manage the herd at 150 head and instead of seeing it grow, you’re watching it shrink, irreversibly.

Everyone’s looking at you with suspicion.

But you had nothing to do with it.

The problem was created by your predecessor, the Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group and its overlords at the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses.

RELATED: Four Organizations Bidding on Salt River Management Contract.

Advocates, Not Project 2025, Invented Humane Disposal

Lately they’ve referred to it as humane management, in-the-wild management or one of these terms:

  • Defending wild horses
  • Protecting wild horses
  • Preserving wild horses
  • Conserving wild horses
  • Safeguarding wild horses
  • Managing wild horses
  • Saving wild horses

They all mean the same thing: Wiping out herds with ovary-killing pesticides.

There are no helicopters, no horses falling out of trailers on the way to off-range corrals and no euthanizing animals for pre-existing conditions.

But the results are the same, with the added benefit that the herds don’t bounce back.

RELATED: Humane Disposal of Wild Horses and Burros?

Humane Disposal of Wild Horses and Burros?

The NGO advising you of a threat to animals in off-range holding is, in fact, humanely disposing the herd on the Virginia Range.

Its affiliate in Arizona, who insists that the state’s new plan will destroy the Salt River herd, is in fact destroying the herd.

Whatever the advocates warn you about, they’re doing times ten, a sure sign they’re liberals.

RELATED: Project 2025 Targets America’s Wild Horses and Burros?

Foal-Free Friday, One Track Mind Edition

The advocates are obsessed with nonmotorized removal, which they express several different ways:

  • Defending wild horses
  • Protecting wild horses
  • Preserving wild horses
  • Conserving wild horses
  • Safeguarding wild horses
  • Managing wild horses
  • Saving wild horses

Their allies in Congress recently formed a pesticide caucus.

Everything points to mass sterilization as a humane alternative to motorized removal with the goal of ranching superiority in the lawful homes of wild horses.

RELATED: Foal-Free Friday, Devil in the Details Edition.

Don’t Forget the Popcorn: Salt River Hand Wringing Is Theater!

The advocates know that most of the mares are nonviable, a condition they caused, and the herd is toast.

No big deal if their contract isn’t renewed, they can go elsewhere and ruin another herd or find jobs with the legacy contractors.

The group claiming that the state’s new plan will destroy the herd is, in fact, destroying the herd.

The group that says any other contractor hired by the state will eradicate the herd is, in fact, eradicating the herd.

The group that says the herd will become extinct if they aren’t allowed to manage it is, in fact, driving it to extinction.

RELATED: As the Noose Tightens Around SRWHDG, Will CAAWH Hang Them Out to Dry?

BLM Issues Bullfrog Final Planning Documents

The Decision Record authorizes the Proposed Action, discussed in Section 2.4 of the Final EA.

A new HMAP was also approved.  Refer to Appendix D.

Section 2.3.2.2 refers to outdated registrations for GonaCon-Equine.

The project folder includes a summary of public comments.

The news release said there are currently more than 1,000 wild burros in and around the HMA.

RELATED: Bullfrog EA Out for Review.

As the Noose Tightens Around SRWHDG, Will CAAWH Hang Them Out to Dry?

Why didn’t the reporter ask Netherlands how many of the mares have been ruined by PZP?

Those who want the horses gone will likely get their wish because the advocates have pushed the birth rate below the death rate with little hope for recovery.

The Salt River Wild Horse Darting Group receives support from the Campaign Against America’s Wild Horses, a leader in nonmotorized removal, fierce opponent of principal use and servant of the public-lands ranchers.

As the truth leaks out in Arizona, look for CAAWH to distance itself from SRWHDG, disavowing any knowledge of their actions.

RELATED: Salt River RFP Cancelled.